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click Trusted Certificates. Scroll til you see  

  1. click the blue Import button up top of that window.
  2. in the left pane, you'll also want to click Trusted Certificates and find the The University of

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  1. Texas at Austin RSA CA certificate and Import it. To import it, you click browse and go find it in your downloads folder if you downloaded it via this wiki, or if one of us helped you, we might have just dragged it to your desktop.
    once you do that. it should now be imported.

  2. click on the certificate you just browsed for and opened and it should show in the Contacts box. it should show down below in the lower Certificates pane. You'll want to click on it and click the Trust button and let that certificate trust on every box that shows up.

  • At this step for Acrobat Pro XI running on Windows 7 the following had to be done to add the University's signing certificate to the list of trusted certificates. If you don't do this step then Acrobat reader will always says UT signing certificates are invalid because the certifying certificate is not trusted.
    • In the same window where you did the previous step, double-click on the user's listed certificate in the right pane
    • In the window that appears you will see a tree of signing certificates in the left pane. Just above the botton branch where the user's certificate is listed, a parent certificate named "The University of Texas at Austin" is listed. Click that certificate to bring up its options in the right pane.
    • Click the "Trust" tab and then click the button labeled "Add to Trusted Certificates..."
    • Accept the default trust options of just trusting it for signing and certifying documents
    • Click OK to accept all changes

Click Edit Trust just above that area that looks like pencil. click checkmarks in all the boxes and click ok. You should be ready to do digital signatures now.


*If you do not see a certificate for The University of Texas at Austin RCA, find it in the Certificates section of the Keychain app and drag it to the desktop, then you can import it into Adobe Acrobat.

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  1. Ensure Adobe Acrobat/Reader is installed on the target computer.
  2. Download this exported certificate file. This is the UT Austin intermediate certificate used to generate all UT Austin employee digital certificates.
  3. Double click the exported certificate and Adobe Acrobat Pro or Reader should automatically launch on the computer. In the window that appears click the "Set Contact Trust..." button. Please make sure that it opens in the default Acrobat program you use. If you use Pro, make sure it opens in Pro. If it does not, You can go back to your downloads and ctrl click on the CertExchangeUTRSA.fdf file, or right click on it, and tell it to open with Adobe Acrobat pro. It may present you with a window that says Set Contract Trust which you can click to get to step 4 depending on the version.
  4. You will be presented with a Window to trust the certificate. Check off all options as shown in the following screenshot:
  5. Done. Restart Adobe Acrobat/Reader to put the change into effect. Now when you verify the UT employee digital certificate used to sign a document it should show up as valid.

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